i mean, dwight eisenhower shows up in 1942 in the mediterranean having never commanded a platoon in combat, and abruptly, he's a theater commander. >> you're unsparing, too, in some of the detail, and not pulling any punches in terms of, again, both excess and mistakes that are made in the prosecution of the war, which seems to run a little bit counter to this, a new generation's level of consciousness about the valor of those who fought the war, which i don't think anybody's questioning, but even, i don't know, a level of nostalgia about the way the war was prosecuted. >> yeah. you know, there was a dreadful nostalgia that set in right as the war ended, and it has persisted to some extent for 70 years, the notion that all the brothers were valiant and all the sisters were virtuous, which is complete nonsense. you know, i think it's important to remember that there were almost a million american soldiers who were hospitalized for various neuropsychiatric issues -- shell shock they would have called it in world war i, battle fatigue, combat fatigue in world war ii. there were 22,000 america

both of those states became state under dwight eisenhower. but along with those literally world-changing, global-changing accomplishments, there was one other achievement of the eisenhower presidency that ike himself saw as just as important as those other things we just described. nbc news sat down with dwight eisenhower after his presidency. it was in color. it was an amazing thing. here is how the former president answered an open question that was put to him about what he thought were his major accomplishments. watch this. >> you did get a number of things done that had been on the agenda of both parties for a long time. st. lawrence seaway. and the admittance of alaska and hawaii to the union. and another one that i guess i more than anyone else thought of it, was the interstate highway program. all of these things took a lot of persuasion before you could get them on the books. >> alaska, hawaii, connected the atlantic ocean to the great lakes. and also the interstate highway program. the interstate highway program, we think of it as ki

dwight eisenhower was not great on civil rights. ople in the civil rights movement, a lot of them thought it was because of eisenhower that they had the struggles in the 50's and the early 60s because of his feeling on so much progress, he was too reluctant on so many changes. but it was a cool pick. >> and in 1957 you can't lead leave out the troops in little rock. >> actually in our control room we have a running game joke. we don't have a control room. >> cenk: all right, the next question. >> could you explain the explain the progressive movement and it's agenda to a five-year-old? what the progressive stands for in a phrase? >> cenk: i can. i can do this one first. i'll do it like bush. it stands for progress and liberty and freedom. i wrote it on my hand. that's sarah palin actually. no freedom for everybody. the civil rights movement, we expand freedom to the blacks in the country we extend freedom to women in the country extend extending freedom to more and more people. that's the explanation of progressive. >> i could not ex

>>> 100 years ago woodrow wilson held the first presidential press conference. 58 years ago, dwight eisenhowerad the first televised presidential press conference. >> i think we're trying a new experiment this morning. i hope it doesn't prove to be a disturbing influence. >> turns out television has proven to be a disturbing influence as dwight eisenhower feared, but not on the president, on the press. these rituals are called press conferences because they're not really about the president, they're about the press. the president's job is to tell us nothing new, nothing we didn't already know, while appearing open and honest in response to the questions, which is actually quite easy because presidents are never asked truly difficult questions at presidential press conferences, they're asked about their feelings, they're asked about unprovable things like what congress might do a few months from now. they're never asked the details of any of the intricacies of the tax code they claim to dislike, never asked difficult questions about medicare part a or medicare part b or part d, each of which is

. >> the real hero in american history is dwight eisenhower. because dwight eisenhower demanded their be films made of auschwitz when it was liberated and he said he was doing it so that deniers could never really counter the idea that the holocaust happened. and he was a hero, he should be a hero to the american jewish community. >> when he was in north africa, he was jewish because his publicity people had to do a lot of work persuading the arabs of consequences that he wasn't jewish. how it was started, the school book, saying that something that he was vaguely jewish or something and contract did the library and said that was only foolish, anything in these wasn't true. he wasn't jewish. and supported nasa against israel, britain and france. and largely to the suez canal. >> i want to commend you for a fascinating book. i didn't want to comment on the first president, mr. washington, much too young then. i would like to bring this back to what the young lady was talking about, mr. roosevelt. in my own case i know my mother and father when t

the michigan democrat came to washington back in 1955 when dwight eisenhower was president, and "mr. sandman" topped the radio charts. >>> now for the weekend forecast, bill karins is here. good morning. >> we survived another day yesterday without a big tornado, without fatalities. that's good. hopefully we'll do it again today. yesterday we had 16 tornadoes, most of those on the weaker side, but a lot of wind damage out there through the great lakes. even this morning storms are still rocking and rolling through arkansas. severe thunderstorms near the kansas city and topeka area out there and in the areas of eastern kansas. that's probably the worst of the weather. as we go throughout the day today, more severe weather in yellow, chicago, detroit, indianapolis, st. louis that area of red a moderate risk of severe storms and torpnadoes, once again targeting oklahoma city, norman and the ozarks. it looks like st. louis is forecast for a top eight all-time flood it should crest on tuesday at about 40 feet. the city itself will be safe. the northeast stays hot today and tomorrow. it lo

. >> or dwight eisenhower. >> or eisenhower. there's nothing about the republican party and principle that says they shouldn't support trying to build up the country. >> congressman jim mcdermott and e.j. dionne, i'm going to have to leave it there. >> great to be with you. >> be careful. >>> ahead, why george zimmerman's defense team is trying to delay his trial. why one key piece of evidence could determine whether he serves time or goes free. >>> plus, the biggest bromance in politics is back. chris christie knows the real scandal is not working with the president for the public's good. and the president's personal speech on fatherhood. it didn't get the attention it deserved. we're talking about it tonight. >>> my whole life, i've tried to be for michelle and my girls what my father was not for my mother and me. i want to break that cycle where a father's not at home, where a father is not helping to raise that son or daughter. great job! okay! here you go. good catch! alright, now for the best part. ooh, let's get those in

and the last voice to begin my remarks belongs to dwight eisenhower on the day he was inaugurated in january 1953. science, ma he noted, seems ready to confer on humankind its final gift the power to erase human life from this planet. now, these voices, the voices, the kinds of voices that i believe had not been fully attended in new deal histories, remind us that the concerns about fear did not stop in 1933 or 34 or 35 or 36. but fear remained a constant feature of american public life throughout the 1930s and 1940s. and it was that recognition, multidimensional quality of fear that led me to write the book "fear itself." now, inviting i thought the only true justification for writing a new book on the new deal, if you were to go to the library and punch in new deal on the computer, catalog, thousands of entries would come. so right -- so why write another book. it was those voices that motivated me to write another book. but to motivate me also of those voices, motivated me to think about the relationship between fear and democracy in our time, when we, too, live in an age of fear.

it was on may 22, 1958 when then president dwight eisenhower dedicated up wrc's studios. it is believed to be the earliest color videotape recording ever. >> we have never gone back. we have stayed in color the entire time. >> to give you a perspective of how far we have come, this clip is posted on youtube now. so you can watch the entire thing. you can see them walking in right there to our front doors. really cool to see the president drive up. this is all captured in the clip. he goes around the circle. he enters the peacock building. >> the building almost looks the same. >> yeah. >>> sunday mornings are big for politics right here. we're a few minutes away from "the chris matthews show," as well as "meet the press" with david gregory. >> let's get a preview now. >> good morning, washington. coming up at 10:00, the storm around president obama has troubled many democrats. and lifted the spirits of republicans. it's even got some usually reasonable people invoking watergate. did the irs target tea party groups out of incompetence or for political reasons? even so, the

carter glass, william martin, dwight eisenhower, george humphrey, douglas dillon, william simon, paul volcker, bill clinton, paul o'neill, and sheila bair. explain that. >> the last 80 years of fiscal monetary financial history, how we got into the mass of bubbles and the fiscal and monetary crisis of today. ofically using the standard threefold items. free-market, fiscal rectitude, which we balanced budgets, we do not make excuses for deficits because you do not think the economy is not performing up to your doctor and expectation, and not using the central bank and ordered to try to centrally manage the economy and, wall street and encourage risk-taking and all of that. these are not bad people and good people. these are good policies and bad policies in well-known careers. not one party or one doctrine. so i took these individuals as examples of fiscal rectitude, and that is why clinton is on there. that is why eisenhower is on there. i have a huge problem with defense spending. this is also why eisenhower is on there. on the other hand, using the government to inflate the economy,

from dwight eisenhower to robert gates a strand of american thinking, realism that urges america to be disciplined about open-ended military interventions for just this reason. we have just gone through a decade devoted to a very different idea. that american power must be used actively, aggressively, preemptively and in pursuit of expansive goals beyond national interest. the result was thousands of american soldiers dead, hundreds of thousands of iraqi civilians dead, $2 trillion spent and the erosion of american influence and good will across the globe. can we please get a few years of respite to rebuild our economic, political and moral capital? for more on this, go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my "time" column. let's get started. >>> eight days after ronald reagan went on tv to admit that his administration had traded arms for hostages in the so-called iran contra scandal republican d then he got the chief job. chief of staff shortly after it was revealed that nancy reagan had been using an astrologer to pick dates for her husband's public appearances. in other words, he is a m

understand that the irs has been out of control on the matter in question since 1959 when republican dwight eisenhower was president. it was in 1959 that the irs decided to change the meaning of the english language in a very important way, and that change was created, created what is called a scandal in washington today, but is really just the irs doing its job. here is what president obama said about the scandal as it has erupted the last few days. >> if in fact irs personnel engaged in the kind of practices that have been reported on and were intentionally targeting conservative groups, then that's outrageous. there's no place for it. and you know, they have to be held fully accountable. i have no patience with it, i will not tolerate it, we will make sure that we find out exactly what happened on this. >> well, yeah, sure, if the irs personnel intentionally targeted conservative groups, that would be bad. but what if irs personnel were correctly examining political organizations' applications for tax exempt status? that is not scandalous because that's the irs' job, they must do it. they cannot ju

george marshall, ernie king, dwight eisenhower to be the supreme commander then i want to examine how good a strategist he was because even though roosevelt left the day to day conduct of the war to his generals, he made the major strategic decisions. and finally i wanted to examine him as morale officer. you're leading a country that's entering a war, the price is going to be exorbitant. how do you keep people loyal and committed to that crusade? >> schieffer: it was interesting to me among those top commanders that he chose that he did choose arnold to head the air force. that turned out well, but the fact was arnold was very much a part of the isolationist wing and people that thought we ought not get involved with this before the war broke out how did he choose him? >> well, first of all, it's not surprising that a lot of people who were in the military in that era didn't vote for roosevelt. but hap arnold was impressed because roosevelt believed in air power. and by the end of the war, around described f.d.r. as the father of the u.s. air force. not himself, although he built the

barack obama, the first and only american president since-- since-- dwight eisenhower six decades agoget more than 51% of the vote in successive elections. that's a major achievement. expectations were high and michael is right, the sequester and the gun control votes were a stinging defeat for the president and disappointments for his supporters. i thought the press conference was a daster. i thought itas a disaster because he brought to it no energy, no zest for battle. we judge presidents on results. we've judged presidents on whether, in fact, they enforce their will upon the congress. and -- but it's always about results. we're not interested in how they do it but what they do. george bush got things done in the congress by enlisting a totally united republican party and picking up a couple of outliar democrats to pass his legislation. bik angered his own party by triaulatg. by reaching across the aisle, angering his own party. right now, barack obama has to confront that the republican party in congress is what it is. it's a congressional party. it's not interested in national e

was so moved by the image she constructed ursa scale model and then -- a scale model and then dwight d eisenhower dedicated a memorial on november 10, 1954. it was a 179th anniversary of the u.s. marine corps. we will be showing you those shots as the morning progresses. that in the tomb of the unknowns which he saw earlier today. we will hear from nathaniel from alabama, he is retired. good morning, sir. caller: good morning. what i would like to do is to in other lives -- words, when i got out of world war ii, they give us around $300. we also got a 52-20. one year of $20 a week. i lived off of that for a while. that of these soldiers come back, sometimes their parents are dead, and they do not have anything. if they just gave them $20 a week, a lot of them probably would not commit suicide because that is what hurts me, when you hear a lot of these suicides. they of times what it is just come back and their parents are gone and they do not know anyone. they just get so frustrated until it causes you to go insane. if you get so frustrated -- my major was in psychology -- if we could figure out

and iran contra and at the low end harry truman with scandals at the irs and military aid and dwight eisenhowero let go his chief of staff. >> and where does this fall? >> right now i think this tracks towards the lower end at present facts. if by far i think the irs is the most dangerous of these three. we have adjudicated the issue of national security for civil liberties dozens of times since 9/11 and the country comes out on the side of national security and i don't think the ap is a big threat. i think benghazi is about talking points. the irv is the one that could get the most dangerous, particularly if there is any evidence political officials encourage this selective enforcement. >> ron brownstein, good to see you. thanks so much. >> good to see you. >>> high-stakes involved as well in this court case we're going to be talking about, oj. simpson. he took the stand in court for the first time ever taking the stand. he wants a new trial. we'll hear his version of events that led to that kidnapping and robbery conviction. [ male announcer ] from red lobster's chefs to your table our seafoo

. >>> we've told you about the reservations the family of president dwight d. eisenhowered regarding the development of a memorial in ike's honor along the national mall here in washington. congress has already appropriated $62 million to the commission which has picked a site and the design, but has not begun construction. now u.s. news and world report says the commission wants another $51 million of taxpayer money. congressional republicans wonder why the commission needs $2 million in operating expenses for a nine-member staff. why it spent 220 grand in travel and conferences from 2009 to 2012, and much more. the commission tells fox news it will be responding to congress in coming weeks. >>> when recruits sign up not just for a job, but an adventure, this isn't the kind they have in mind. what president obama calls the scourge of sexual assault in the u.s. military has catapulted to the top of public consciousness in the past several days. molly henneberg tonight on what's being done about it. >> defense secretary chuck hagel said today that he and other military lea

. >> and we think of kansas, in modern times, dwight eisenhower, nancy kassenbaum, very moderate republicanuldn't get elected to anything there now. not even bob dole. >> so what happened? >> what's the matter with this place? >> come on now, that's a long story. you're seeing a microcosm of it right here. it's the culture wars. we can talk about this all day if we wan. >> senator hailey, you've watched this unfold. it seems to me in the last year before these primary challenges, the moderate republicans in the kansas senate had almost taeeam up with the democrats to stop the conservative agenda. you've soon this play out. where does this come from, what we're seeing right now with the gun nullification. >> we are now finding ourselves, i guess i'm almost under assault. there are constitutional majorities in both the senate and the house for an extreme, well, conservative ultraright-wing agenda. it's almost like democrats and moderate republicans are persona non grata. we don't really have a say so. we know the veto -- the concerns that we have, especially when we look at some of the issues

really the last president who got that infrastructure as a key national security issue was dwight d. eisenhower been struggling ever since and making the appropriate investment. so one is of course that it's the underpinning of any advance of society. it's economy relies on the infrastructure. but more importantly post-september 11th when we see terrorism is directed at civil targets, whether we saw in boston, where i am now at northeastern university, where i am a mile away we had the explosion going after, the concern is terrorists are increasingly looking at the fragile infrastructure. the more brittle it is, the more vulnerable we are. and this is something we should be investing in from a national security perspective as well as just a sound economic quality of life perspective. >> as you know, showing up the country's infrastructure was a big part of president obama's stimulus package back in 2009. how much work has been done since then? >> not near enough. you know, according to the american society of civil engineers, if we just repair the infrastructure we have right now, we're going t

i do not care what president you want to talk about -- ronald reagan, harry truman, dwight eisenhower. moral courage is sapped by what i would call political reality. it is sapped by clinical opposition and the caliber and brouhaha nature of that opposition. what happens when you confront a series like this, even though you are in your second term, have been reelected, even though you do not have political concerns for yourself, you do have concerns for others. why do you think my party, the republican party, is still going on about benghazi? it has nothing to do with their affection for the incident or their desire to find the truth. it has everything to do with hillary clinton so she will not be a candidate or give them worry in the next presidential election. what about elections in the congress with regard to the house and the senate? they are up there, too, so the president has to concern himself with all these things. i come back to my original point very seldom in the post-world war ii national security state do we find a president with the moral courage to go against essential

fordresident gerald remembers dwight eisenhower from his perspective. that is sunday at 3. journal"ngton continues. tot: michael beckel is here continue our discussion about the situation over at the irs. the headline in this morning's "washington post," -- your thoughts about what came out against a possible ways and means hearing. guest: thank you for having me here. yes today was definitely a day of bipartisan theory on capitol hill. both democrats and republicans are really going after the republicans -- going after the irs yesterday. host: this headline in "the financial times" is emblematic of what we have seen -- does that come as a surprise to you? guest: that poses a question, when exactly did higher-ups' in the chain of command know what was going on? which of these groups were political? which ones deserve special attention? later somebody up the chain of command knows what is going on and there are a lot of questions still about who, what, when? host: there's an editorial in this morning's "wall stree t journal," -- about thatu think when he said that? the cente

. >> what took me in reading your book, how mean dwight eisenhower was to richard nixon. mean, it's amazing how mean. you should give us some examples. >> yeah. eisenhower wasn't aware of it. eisenhower regarded everyone who worked for him as staff, and nixon was a lieutenant commander in the navy, and eisenhower was a five-star general, and to try to get seasons of that today, we don't have -- we have four stores, like david petraeus, but it's a difference between sort of leading the allied expeditionary forces in the invasion of normandie or running iraq. so eisenhower was -- both parties want things to -- fdrs son wanted him to run as a democrat. and they could run for both parties and then different vice presidents. and so i eisenhower was oblivious to his affect on people, andest i think there -- in some cases some deliberate cruelty. and started off in a very bad we. i'm sure you know the story of the crisis which began with his story in the new york post saying nix won was support bade secret group of millionaires and a lot of for your -- pressure to get nixn off t

congressman lincoln "followed by the author of "ike and dick" about the political relationship between dwight eisenhower and richard nixon. >>> the number of people filing for unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in five years. at the same time, americans are leaving the work force in large numbers. on our next "washington journal," we'll talk with "the wall street journal" reporter. then reporter and author hendrix smith joins us. the most recent book "who stole the american dream." and later a discussion on the cost of child care. our guests are linda of the u.s. bureau and barbara of the institute for women's policy research. we'll take your call, e-mail, and tweets. washington journal each morning at 7:00 eastern on c span. >>> this year c-span student cam video competition had entry from 35,000 on a theme of message to the president. we talk with the winners. >> my dad's friend was featured in the video. actually unemployed going through the process of unemployment at the time. i thought he would be a good subject to follow. so i kind of yeah. i followed his life. >> at time i h

government and the number of people is smaller than anytime since dwight eisenhower. now, i don't think there's any american that knows that, and the press certainly doesn't talk about that. it just to be that we were constantly beseiged with talks with sermons on our deficit problems, and how that was a symbol of how america was wasting, just wasting. and, of course, now the deficit is beginning to fix everything is changed to the debt. none of that is what i want to safety. what i want to say to you is i want you to be a good secretary of transportation, and you cannot do that without new revenue and you cannot do that without goading us in the congress, which will be hard. you've got to get oem be to agree to it but sometimes, you, your predecessor was pretty good going around saying what you want and getting away with it. you can't do that without revenue. you can't, you can't pretend that everything stands still for the last 10 years and you have no more money to do it. and expect to have it. you won't have the greatest. you won't have resources. you won't have i

reduced discretionary spending, taking out medicare and defense , and reduced it to the level of dwight eisenhowerad it is .ower -- eisenhower it is lower now than it ever was. he has had big spending on war. he put the words on the budget. the bush-cheney administration did a lot of that off the budget, and he had a terrible recession to cope with. of course there is waste and fraud, but the idea that democrats do not care about that, bill clinton left us a surplus. emma kratz tend to do better at -- democrats tend to do better at cutting the budget that republicans do, yet that is information people cling to. host: joan walsh joins us from salon.com. she is editor at large. she joined in 1998 as the first full-time news editor. you can also catch her on msnbc doing political analysis. her background includes time as a freelancer and business owner. she has also been a columnist for "the san francisco magazine ." jill, ohio. independent line. caller: i do not know where to start. to your last point about this administration being fiscally responsible, why is that word out -- that he is a tax and

. >> what took me in reading your book, how mean dwight eisenhower was to richard nixon. i mean, it's amazing how mean. you should give us some examples. >> yeah. eisenhower wasn't aware of it. eisenhower regarded everyone who worked for him as staff, and nixon was a lieutenant commander in the navy, and eisenhower was a five-star general, and to try to get seasons of that today, we don't have -- we have four stores, like david petraeus, but it's a difference between sort of leading the allied expeditionary forces in the invasion of normandie or running iraq. so eisenhower was -- both parties want things to -- fdrs son wanted him to run as a democrat. and they could run for both parties and then different vice presidents. and so i eisenhower was oblivious to his affect on people, andest i think there -- in some cases some deliberate cruelty. and started off in a very bad we. i'm sure you know the story of the crisis which began with his story in the new york post saying nix won was support bade secret group of millionaires and a lot of for your -- pressure to get nixn off

letter from a well-known tv news anchor will follow that of the eisenhower center from video of the first presidential news conference with dwightnhower. me in these boxes are boxes containing correspondence that was received in the white house during the johnson years, and many contain letters from the general public. what i have here to share a year is, i think, an amusing example of them. what i have is a letter from the very, very young brian what, who of course is now the anchor of the nbc nightly news -- young brian williams. it is written in hand on lined notebook paper. it is pretty typical of some of the letters we have from school children in our files. i would just read it to you. "dear mr. president -- i hope that the men in vietnam are doing well. do they do at this each day? " "i have not been anyone else before, but i will some time. i live in new york state in elmira. i went to visit you. one of your young democrats, brian williams." you can see decorated it with an exuberant note -- "look at this ." >> how old was he? >> he said he was 7 at years old. -- seven-and-a-half-years-old. it is very similar to the one

i covered dwight david eisenhower as an 18-year-old 1 worther in delaware.e. gee. did i get so will you canny to have thiyouyolucky tohs morning? this is the opening of one of your favorites. >> why this is favorite, becausc it humanizes this almost hollywood couple.ho you look upll here and see howee beautiful they are all and how w arresting they ar all are. you look down there and the babb girl is eating the pearls. p you look a little fort down andd you see she's holding the baby bottle, and all of a sudden you say wait a minute, these are people who actually get up and have to take care of their kids. >> they're moms and dads, too. >> thank you so much for your time. i really appreciate it.ate >> great to be with you. >> it was great to be with you. >> wish you well. >> thank you. we have a link to the new seum. we've got more fox 5 morning 5 news when we come back. stay with us. [ male announcer ] fact: the 100% electric nissan leaf... is more fun than ever. sees better than ever. ♪ charges faster. and will charge. cool. and heat. from your phone. fact: leaf

>> caller: ever since dwight david eisenhower put "in god we trust" in everything thus violating the been in a -- >> stephanie: let me pray briefly for my fcc license. >> did you get that, current? >> stephanie: he's turned me into a bible thumper now. okay. >> not all atheists say words like that. >> stephanie: no. bob in oklahoma, you're on "the stephanie miller show." hey, bob. >> caller: hi, stephanie and gang and i'll keep it relatively clean. >> stephanie: thank you. >> caller: one thing that i don't think has been pointed out in the right wing wacko religious nuts would go crazy and jump on this, sunday afternoon, oklahoma city held their gay pride parade. before the tornado. >> now it makes sense! >> caller: yeah! >> because gays caused it. >> stephanie: pat robertson said that's why that hurricane hit florida because of gay day at walt disney world. >> only logical. >> stephanie: god clearly has gadar. >> gadar7,000. >> stephanie: caroline in -- except in minnesota that doesn't work there clearly because of the bachmanns. gadar doesn't function there. >> there is like a dome

i do not care what president you want to talk about -- ronald reagan, harry truman, dwight eisenhower. moral courage is set by what i would call political reality. it is sapped by clinical opposition and the caliber and brouhaha nature of that opposition. bank in and the grant, mcmillan -- don king, and that democratic party and others. what happens when you confront a series like this, even though you are in your second term, have been reelected, even though you do not have political concerns for yourself, you do have concerns for others. why do you think my party, the republican party, is still going on about benghazi? it has nothing to do with their affection for the incident or their desire find it should. it has everything to do with hillary clinton so they will not be a candidate or give them worry in the next presidential election. what about elections in the congress with regard to the house and the senate? they are up there, too, so the president has to concern himself with all these things. i come back to my original point -- very seldom in the post-world war ii national sec

on c-span3's american history tv, former president gerald ford and members dwight eisenhower from his perspective. sunday at 3:00. >> outgoing irs commissioner steve miller told congress that foolish mistakes were made by the tax agencies but they were not motivated by partisanship. he is referring to revelations that some conservative groups were targeted in filing for nonprofit status. a treasury department regulator testifying at the same hearing said he did not find evidence that irs decisions were motivated by politics. this is three-and-a-half hours. >> the meeting will come to order. on may 10 the director of internal revenue service division that oversees tax exempt group acknowledged that the agency was targeting political leaning organizations. four days later they confirmed that "the i.r.s. used inappropriate crier the to identify political organizations applying for status.? this began as far back as 2010. this goes against the principles of free speech and liberty upon in which this country was founded. the disregard that the agency has treated congress and the american t

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macadoo get him to come before the committee under dwight d. eisenhower with robert anderson was the secretary. that is difference between exclusively and not primarily. then we had the change the senator from florida was talking about. and then in 1998, if i can find my notes here, we had, maybe this is one of the great strides that you made, sir. but we had the irs restructuring act. and, that, really refers to the 10 deadly since, mr. george, as you were talking about. i was going to ask you who moses was on the 10 deadly since, to figure out who can be the judge in this and turns out it is the irs commissioner. so it is mr. schuld man. i've got them right here. i will not read them but sin number one, i will read three, maybe four. sin number one was to violate proper procedures to seize taxpayer assets. that perhaps happened. six, no retaliation, harassing of a taxpayer. that's it. that's one. these are civil penalties, by the way. seven a willful vie lalgs of taxpayer privacy. that of course happened. i would putnam per 11 down here with a bolo. i d

captioning made possible by friends of nci man: in 1950, general of the army dwight eisenhower bought this farm here in gettysburg, pennsylvania, next to the famous battlefield. the idea was to retire here after a stint as president of columbia university to sit on this porch, read books,